Load torrent files from specific folder

[ajnavarro]

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[ajnavarro]

Planned for next release using https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify to make multi-OS compatible.

[joshurawr]

Is this feature to do this while the program is running? Is there a startup-time way to specify a path to load all torrent files from a folder in the config? I was trying to point torrent_path to a folder but seems to not like it, giving an error message error="error reloading configuration: error loading route multimedia: read /distribyted-data/torrents/: is a directory" (running the docker version)

[ajnavarro]

Hi @joshurawr

Yes, the idea with this feature is to dynamically load/unload torrents from a specified folder while distribyted is running. Apart from that, we could implement initial torrent loading from a specified folder too. Right now you must specify all torrents you want to load.

I'll bump the priority for this task and try to make a new release with it ASAP.

Thank you for your feedback, really appreciated!

[jkaberg]

any progress on this @ajnavarro ? distribyted fits my use case perfectly if this feature gets implemented :-)

[ajnavarro]

Hey @jkaberg , With the new release you can load torrent files directly from a specified folder. Dynamic load/unload is not implemented yet, so it loads the torrent on startup.

[jkaberg]

@ajnavarro thanks, thats good ground work. do you have any plan/eta on dynamic load/unload?

[ajnavarro]

Nothing yet. The torrent loader system was not designed to dynamically load/unload torrents. It must be refactored to allow loading and unloading torrents after starting distribyted.